If this for Splunk Enterprise Security or Splunk IT Service Intelligence, see the docs about maintance modes and noteable event suppression. ITSI https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ITSI/4.13.1/Configure/AboutMW ES https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/7.0.1/User/Takeactiononanotableevent#:~:text=Suppress%20a%20notable%20event&text=Select%20a%20notable%20event%20on,Type%20a%20Suppression%20Name. For Splunk Enterprise alerts via REST you could try this solution: https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-do-you-disable-enable-alerts-via-the-REST-API/m-p/441559#M7731 Stopping the universal forwarder process as part of maintaince could be another option, but there are implication's to this. Transient inputs like scripted or network inputs will be lost, also doing this on mass on as a regular occurence may not result in the most optimal index/buckets.       ... View more